You know, this was something that came up originally as a means to
make a political point when there were substantive discussions around Senate reform a long, long time ago.
I'm not a fan of piggybacking on such achievements in favour
of making political points, but there are clear lessons to be learned from it.
You are going to discuss religious choices made by a child and influenced by adults to try to
make political points for Obama?
No, Jesus, when pressed to use his authority to
make a political point said simply, «Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.»
As promised, President Obama is taking Republicans to task in his Buffalo speech on the economy, accusing them of being too focused
on making political points than collaborating with Democrats to help create jobs and speed the recovery.
«And usually towards the end of the class they would swap papers and then they would sort of score jolly points off each
other making political points.
What I find refreshing about the guide is its return to a focus on more or less classical civil disobedience, which is to say
making a political point by doing what the powers - that - be don't want you to do without necessarily breaking the criminal law — and being willing to accept the consequences of that behaviour as part of the protest.
«It's a sad commentary that Governor Cuomo cares more
about making a political point than he does about the well being of these workers and their families, even at the expense of Thruway and Canal operations,» Donohue said.
But when they start instructing priests to
make political points in their homilies for Mass, which is starting to happen, I refuse communion, stop all donations, and have my name struck from he parish rolls.
and no im
not making a political point, its just an ovservation of the way things have gone and the way in which the previous torie govenment got wiped out
They wanted to
make the political point that all savings are safe.
I am not here trying to
make a political point.
To think that this group or any other would think that a military funeral is a place to
make their political point is not only illogical, it is frankly disgusting.
While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mostly to
make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Christian position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?
We know that we should acknowledge America's dark history of slavery — but when we're trying to
make a political point?
While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mosty to
make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Chrisitan position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?
Back in the day, a «sit - in» meant just that — taking over a physical space with physical bodies to
make a political point.
Most people don't care enough about politics to go see them and you'll lose half of those who do if
you make any political point whatsoever.
Video often evokes a stronger emotional reaction than text or still images alone, making it a powerful way to tell stories or
make a political point, but online video isn't television — the kinds of content that succeeds can be quite different, with authenticity (that word again!)
Activists from Japan, China and Taiwan have all tried to sail to the islands to make a political point
If you haven't been following the recent saga of the online crusade to distribute the magic code used to crack hi - def video disks, you've missed a fascinating example of distributed, uncoordinated citizen action to
make a political point.
When it comes to saving these steelworks, we should try and be bigger than
making political points.»
So are you actually admitting that you asked this question to
make a political point, rather than to get an answer?
First, it's a piece of music intended to
make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.
The same problem of partisanship clouding important cross-party issues might be identified in the reaction to the use of two misguided references to
make political points.
Video often evokes a stronger emotional reaction than text or still images alone, making it a powerful way to tell stories or
make a political point, but online video isn't television — the kinds of content that succeeds can be quite different, with authenticity and topic typically more important than polished visuals.
Hilary Benn, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, said it was a «shameful and cowardly poster», while Nicky Morgan, the Conservative education secretary, said: «Using the tragic deaths of innocent people to
make a political point is simply shameful.»
She later stated: «Using the tragic deaths of innocent people to
make a political point is simply shameful.
It is also that ministers are using statistics they know (or ought to know) are unreliable in order to
make a political point.
And I do not believe that the EU's leaders will seriously tell German exporters, French farmers, Spanish fishermen, the young unemployed of the Eurozone, and millions of others, that they want to make them poorer, just to punish Britain and
make a political point.
CSEA has offered the governor numerous alternatives to save even more money but the governor is only interested in ideas that inflict pain on the work force to
make a political point.
But a few people decided this was the perfect opportunity to use the tragedy to
make a political point.
Not trying to
make a political point but imagine Fox News or Breitbart pulled into the extremes.
It's a sad commentary that Governor Cuomo cares more about
making a political point than he does about the well being of these workers and their families, even at the expense of Thruway and Canal operations.»
I find this sardonically amusing, considering we're living in a time where innocent people are being beheaded to
make a political point.